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5 common consultant negotiation tactics and how to protect your interests

CIO Business Intelligence

To execute a successful digital transformation initiative, you are likely to establish consulting provider relationships. Unfortunately, many organizations find themselves susceptible to the tactics used by consultants to manage their risk and optimize a commercial arrangement to their benefit. This takes planning.

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Marsh McLennan IT reorg lays foundation for gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Paul Beswick, CIO of Marsh McLennan, served as a general strategy consultant for most of his 23 years at the firm but was tapped in 2019 to relaunch the risk, insurance, and consulting services powerhouse’s global digital practice.

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Marsh McLellan IT reorg lays foundation for gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Paul Beswick, CIO of Marsh McLellan, served as a general strategy consultant for most of his 23 years at the firm but was tapped in 2019 to relaunch the risk, insurance, and consulting services powerhouse’s global digital practice.

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Dell cuts jobs amid growing economic uncertainties

CIO Business Intelligence

There are primarily two points to consider here,” said Pareekh Jain, CEO of EIIRTrend & Pareekh Consulting. Medium to long-term strategy Analysts point out that while several tech companies are reducing their workforce, Dell is one of the few who has recorded weak financial performance.

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Escaping POC Purgatory: Evaluation-Driven Development for AI Systems

O'Reilly on Data

By contrast: ML-powered software introduces uncertainty due to real-world entropy (data drift, model drift), making testing probabilistic rather than deterministic. LLM-powered software amplifies this uncertainty further. Iterations produce predictable, discrete releases.

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Decision Making with Uncertainty Requires Wideward Thinking

Andrew White

COVID-19 and the related economic fallout has pushed organizations to extreme cost optimization decision making with uncertainty. For literally 20-30 years organizations have assumed, or been told by consultants, that such programs need big budgets, big teams, executive commitment, and a giant expensive glossy to promote the work.

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Regulatory uncertainty overshadows gen AI despite pace of adoption

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s no surprise, then, that according to a June KPMG survey, uncertainty about the regulatory environment was the top barrier to implementing gen AI. So here are some of the strategies organizations are using to deploy gen AI in the face of regulatory uncertainty. Companies in general are still having problems with data governance.”